WESTERN LANDSCAPE PAINTING

papers to be given at the
Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association and American Culture
Association 2002 Conference

13-17 February, 2002, Albuquerque Hilton,
Albuqueruqe

AREA CHAIR: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

Session 1: Modernism in Western Landscape Painting
Panel Number 401: Saturday 8:00 AM - 9:30 Parlor B

Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

Dean A. Porter
Director Emeritus, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South
Bend, Indiana
"Taos Gets Marinitus"

Daria Labinsky
art historian, Rio Rancho, New Mexico
"Unhesitating Strokes': The Landscape Paintings of Frank Applegate"

Samuel Evans Watson III
doctoral candidate, Dept. of Art History, University of Kansas, Lawrence
"The Faraway Nearby / The Nearby Faraway: Land and Self in the Art of
Georgia O'Keeffe and Dorothea Tanning"

Jane Comstock
Vance Kirkland Studio, Denver
"Timberline and Beyond: Vance Kirkland and the Shifting Landscape"

Session 2: Social Consciousness and Political Discourse in Depictions of the
West
Panel Number 441 Saturday Parlor B 12:00 - 1:30

Chair: Herbert R. Hartel, Jr.

Anna Marley
doctoral candidate, Dept. of Art History, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles
"Celebration or Damnation: The Sublime in Albert Bierstadt's Donner Lake
from the Summit"

Robert McGrath
Professor, Dept. of Art History, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
"From the Great Stone Face to the Mountain of the Holy Cross: The Rocky Road
to National Redemption"

Andrea Pappas
Professor, Dept. of Art History, Santa Clara University
"Post-Natural Ecosystems: Technological Interventions in the California
Landscape"

Midori Yamamura
doctoral candidate, Ph.D. Program in Art History, City University of New
York
"Landscape of Memories: Identity Politics Played by the Missing Piece of the
Puzzle in Allan de Souza's Contemporary American Landscapes"